Self Portrait Tuesday: Life Documentary Series #4
MORNING It is dark when I wake up. Rain pouring down, smudging the window with tiny rivers. It has been three weeks of rain. I shower. The rooms in my small apartment are dim and blue and quiet, except for my baby’s excited babble. I dry my damp skin and wait for the collection of [...]
Fire
This week’s theme at Mama Says Om is fire. Go look.
Where the images went
Over the past few months I’ve discovered, again, that I am an artist. I knew this truth as a child, and I kept sketchbooks voraciously. I drew the everyday things of my life, and I’d sit for hours using crayons to imagine places I’d never been. I could lose myself inside the landscapes by artists [...]
Unwinding
I breathe in. I breathe out. I am calling to myself, looking for centeredness. It is past 9 p.m. The house is still tonight. Tues on my iPod. Stan Getz. I drink the second half of a glass of Pinot Noir from Chalone Vinyard in foggy Montery, California. The chair creaks under my shifting weight. [...]
Poop
A small sampling of our visit to the farm today.
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